Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

[Michael McKernan]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin D Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:26:02 -0400 (EDT)

  Kevin> Derek Martin writes:

  >> CAR and CDR refer to a register in the IBM 704.

Specifically, contents of the A register, contents of the D register.
IBM hardware of that vintage were single accumulator machines.  The
A register was the accumulator; D was an extension register for
double length products and dividends.  Useless trivia, of course, but
immortalized forever by Johm McCarthy.



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